Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-03
a WOOL MARKET.

| THE GAZETTE urges upon the attention
! of the people CT Fort Worth the expedi-
ency of some effort to make this city q
wool market. AS a market for live stock
at this time Fort Worth has no superior
in Texas, and while we are seeking to en-
large our facilities for the transaction Of
the business in this production and thus
to extend and perpetuste ii, we should
seek to make of the city great wool
market also.
Texas is & great producer of live stock
and wool; there is nothing chimerical
about the production of wool, cattle AID
horses in the territory of which Fort
Worth is the natural trade center. If
Fort Worth cannot make itself q great
wool and great live stock market it
cannot do anything at aIl. And this city,
once provided with the necessary fscili-
ties for handling the trades in question,
would soon feel the impulse Of
the aggregation here of interests
whose potency in developing Texas has
never been questioned. THE GAZETTE
in this urges its people TO no delusiye
scheme. The cattle and the horses ard
the sheep are here in abundance, and not
very much is required to effectuauy CEN
ter in this city the trade in those products
of the country of which Fort Worth is the
outlet
With big stock yards to gather the cat
tie and the horses and the sheep
here, and permanently locate in this
city the trade dependent upon the i'm
mense live stock industry OF the state,
supplemented by facilities for handling
wool, it could rot be long until those
who wanted to manufacture meats and
wooden goods would seek Fort Worth in
stead of waiting TO be sought. THE
GAzETTE's local article on this subject
yesterday has met with such favor that
it is here repeated, for the sake of en-
phasizing the good to be done the city by
timely action in this matter: "Texas rs
a great wool growing state. Hundreds
Of thousands of pounds of wool pass
through Fort Worth every week on the
wsy to Boston. This wool is shipped full
of dirt and wool fat, and the dirt costs
S1.43 per 100 pounds for transportation,
or as much as the wool Itself. When this
wool reaches Boston tits sent to Walpole
where water with the same properties as
our artesan water is found, and there
the wool is secured. Water that will
scour wool is very rare, many states have
no such water. In the state of Ohio they
fleece wash wool, but they have no water
to scour it, There is no city in the state
CT Texas where wool can be secured but
the city of Fort Worth, for there is no
city in Texas that has the artesian water
necessary to do this but Fort Worth
Wool is worth, including the dirt and
wool Fat, Ice, lie and 1Sc in Texas,
secured wool is worth 374c, Ace and 42tc
besides the saving of freight st the rate
of SLAB per 100 for the dirt shipped 1900
miles. Last week 3 gentleman who is an
expert IN wool, tried our artesian water
on wool and finds it to bea magnificent
securing water. He has made this
known, and already some of our citizens
are discussing the establishment of q
wool-scouring plant. A machine that
will scour 1000 pounds of wool per day
will cost $3.50, and it is proposed to put
in ten or twelve of these machines and
scour 10000 to 1900 pounds daily. Let
this be done and nearly every wool
grower in Texas Will ship his wool to
Fort Worth, where it can be secured and |
he will make cents to 1Ot cents per
pound besides what he saves in freight.
1t is proposed by the gentlemen moving
in the matter to buy land near the river
and bore artesian wells, plant their ma
chinery and go to work. What is known
as wool fat or lamsline or agnine is val
liable commodity, worth from rs cents to
$3.50 per pound. After the wool is
washed this grease is taken from the wa